immigration policy of rushing and cancelling raids against families has some i.c.e. officers longing for the order of the obama years. president obama was never popular among the rank and file at i.c.e., but the detailed list of enforcement priorities he instituted in 2014, which many in the agency initially resented as micro management now seem more sensible. one i.c.e. officer said one person told me i never thought i d say this but i miss the obama rules. we removed more people with the rules we had in place than with all of this. it was much easier when we had the priorities, it was cleaner, since the creation of i.c.e. in 2003, enforcement was premised on the idea that officers primarily would go after criminals for deportation. president trump who views i.c.e. as a tool to showcase toughness has abandoned that framework entirely. quote, i don t even know what we re doing now one officer said. a lot of us see the photos of the kids at the border and we re wondering what the hell i
to get the offenders off campus those who were innocent had no fair forum to launch their defense. panels of professors were delegated in many cases to carry out justice and if they didn t the school risked losing federal funds under the obama rules. the stakes were high and lady justice was blindfolded in a way that left some of the innocent shunned, kicked out of their classes in their dorms, their reputation, their education and their dreams in tatters. i don t have any recollection of this but once you walked in initially to return to my room she asked if i had any gum and i said yes and gave her one. i got a phone call from the school s title ix department telling me in no uncertain terms that i had to pack up my stuff and leave my dorm immediately and there were officers there to escort me off campus.
more. so, alicia, this is a fascinating story. we ve been poking around the numbers. what is behind this? so i think one aspect is the deregulation. i don t think we even realized how suppressed the industry was rules put in place by the obama administration. intended to force the shutdown of coal plants and prevent building new coal plants. so there was two stages. the first obama rules went after new coal plants. then the clean power plan said, we ll put existing plants out and then they went after the exports, basically by freezing leases on federal lands, which is where a lot of the coal, which is very economic and competitive, where it was coming from and exported abroad.
presidents. we counted 35 public pledges since he became president. and 18 of them he made no effort for any sort of public actual follow-through. so 17 we found some kind of action even if he didn t ghesly succeed, and then on the bills signed in about to law, we analyzed every sink good he will o single one. 28 signed, 13 were efforts to nullify obama rules, nine were symbolic. only six had legislative substance. and what are some of the examples of things he has delivered on? well, regulations on immigrations with executive orders. where he s come up short is we can show tweets that he put up very glat tick and he made no effort to do anything. for example he said if chicago doesn t fix the horrible carnage going on, 228 shootings in 2017, 42 killings, i will send in the feds. that has not happened. another one, i will be asking for a major investigation into voter fraud including those
the conservative meeting he skipped last year. where the conservative political action conference has become the trump political action conference. by tomorrow it will be tpac. reporter: with trump the face of the party and the conservative movement. trump team continuing to push back on the obama rules and transgender bathrooms. this issue was a huge example of the obama administration s overreach to suggest a one size fits all federal government approach. reporter: even as questions remain were trump far from a traditional ideological conservative can keep his party together. can this trump movement be combined with what s been happening with cpac and other conservative movements over the years. it has to and we have to stick together as a team. the truth of the matter is